Valency is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 156 anagrams from letters in valency (acelnvy).
Hydrogen, however, appears to be invariably univalent, and is therefore taken as the unit of valency.
The number above each column indicates the valency which the elements of each group exhibit towards oxygen.
Just why different elements should differ thus in valency no one as yet knows; it is an empirical fact that they do.
It is the river valency of which he speaks, the more important of the streams that join just above the haven.
If the word be defined as above, it is absolutely certain that the valency varies.
It is equal to the molecular weight of the ion, divided by 96.537 times its valency.
The term “valency” is not altogether an easy one to define; we will, however, here do our best to make plain its significance.
The phenomena of valency find their explanation in modern views concerning the constitution of atoms (see § 81).
The question next arises, is the valency of an element fixed or variable?
Another consequence of the doctrine of valency was that it permitted the graphic representation of the molecule.